WHAT HAPPENED ON 6. MAY
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The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act. (6. May 1882)

The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris. (6. May 1889)

Macario Sakay establishes the Tagalog Republic with himself as President. (6. May 1902)

George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII. (6. May 1910)

21 Lebanese nationalists executed in the Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Jamal Pasha, the Ottoman wāli. (6. May 1916)

The Deutsche Studentenschaft attacked Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books. (6. May 1933)

New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration. (6. May 1935)

The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk. Hindenburg disaster (6. May 1935)

Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed. (6. May 1937)

John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath. (6. May 1940)

At California's March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show. (6. May 1941)

The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. (6. May 1941)

World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese. (6. May 1942)

World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops. (6. May 1945)

World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins. (6. May 1945)

EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation. (6. May 1949)

Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes. (6. May 1954)

More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey. (6. May 1960)

St. Martín de Porres is canonized by Pope John XXIII. (6. May 1962)

Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England. (6. May 1966)